Asymmetries and portfolio choice – Adam Farago – University of Gothenburg, Magnus Dahlquist – Stockholm School of Economics and Swedish House of Finance and Romeo Tedongap – Stockholm School of Economics and Swedish House of Finance

Statistics of heteroskedastic extremes – John H.J. Einmahl – Tilburg University, Laurens de Haan – Erasmus University Rotterdam and University of Lisbon and Chen Zhou – De Nederlandsche Bank and Erasmus University Rotterdam